Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to detect with the instruments that existed then, but Libby charged at the problem with his peculiar combination of creative abandon and meticulous care, and soon plucked a great prize. Since carbon 14 is mixed in the atmosphere, it is taken up by living plants, supplying a small part of the carbon in all living organisms. Its half-life is about 5,000 years, i.e., half its atoms disintegrate in that time. So when a plant or animal dies and ceases to take up fresh carbon 14, the radioactivity of its substance should decline with the passage of time...
Social Document. Writes Critic Bazin: "The Corneilleian simplicity of the western scenario has often been parodied. It is true that it is easy to detect an analogy to Le Cid: same conflict between love and duty, same knightly deeds, resulting in the virgin consenting to forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal...
...simplified 1955 testing procedure (with U.S. laboratories only reading reports on tests made by manufacturers and spot-checking occasional batches of vaccine) was not good enough to detect such possible slipups. It remained to be seen whether the meticulous triple-testing of every batch used in last year's field trials would be enough for the future, or whether new procedures would have to be found...
Arthur Howe, Director of Admissions at Yale, yesterday blamed Yale's personal interview program for failure to detect subsidization which led to the recent ineligibility ruling by Ivy League officials...
...Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar; the setting was Gandhian, in a tenement, and many of the leaders traveled to Madras Gandhi-style, in jampacked third-class carriages. But they were painfully aware that India's Congress officials had since drifted away from the people; the old men on the mattress could detect a mounting outcry against Congress officialdom's growing flabbiness, its fondness for big houses and pomp. The old men were also disturbed by Nehru's disappointing campaign through Andhra...